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Introduction of Roma Virtual Network The Roma Virtual Network (RVN) is a public grass-roots initiative aimed to provide the international Roma community and friendly non-Roma organizations and individuals with useful information on Roma issues in variety of languages via the…

South Sudan marks the fourth anniversary of its independence on 9th July 2015. While the country faced enormous development challenges after separating from Sudan, it was a time of great hope. Today, however, the world’s newest nation is facing a…

Who won the 2014 Gaza war? The violent leaders on both sides. Who lost it? Ordinary people on both sides. Netanyahu became re-elected on the bases of fear and paranoia. Every missile Hamas fired into Israel created another vote for…

David Wapner: a Honest and Real Picture of Israel and Zionism Hi all, Today I am very happy to introduce you to David Wapner, an Israeli Jew, born in Buenos Aires in 1958 who moved to Israel in 1998 and…

We thrash, curse for air As our strangler declares, look How violent the Arab – Haiku for the Headlocked, by Zein El-Amine Rami El-Amine makes the case that Israel’s war on Gaza is not about the kidnapping of Israeli teenagers,…

LOWER THE US FLAG ON JULY 4TH!  (Or: I’ll Take Down My Flag, When You Take Down Yours!)  By Gary Corseri I’ve marched in the Civil Rights Movement.  During the Vietnam War, I marched behind a Peace Symbol flag, and…

By Danny Katch – New York – 06/25/2015 – IN THE wake of Dylann Roof’s racist massacre in a Charleston church, there is increased public awareness of the frighteningly widespread network of violent right-wing networks. The New York Times, for…

This central European country, famous for goulash, the world’s best footballer of the 1950s – Ferenc Puskas, the biro pen and the rubik cube, among other things, is making headlines these days for more unpleasant reasons. Ever since the country…

“…To a large extend, the official state of Israel seems to have forgotten, in this sad moment of history, many of the moral commitments that underlay its foundation and its existence. But there is also something else in Israel that…

Mr. Zeljko Jovanovic is director of the Roma Initiatives Office (RIO), which aims to strengthen the voices and leadership of Roma with respect to improving public policies and services in Europe. In the past few months, he has been actively advocating…